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Vladimir Putin, fresh on the heels of the widely anticipated announcement that he’ll seek a fourth term as president, said that Russia won’t stop its athletes from competing under a neutral flag at

Russian President Vladimir Putin dodged an opportunity to announce his long-awaited bid for another six-year term.

Billionaire Andrej Babis was named Czech prime minister Wednesday, taking a step closer toward his governing plan to cut waste in state spending, build more highways and push the European Union to

Prime Minister Theresa May’s chances of getting a Brexit breakthrough this week receded as the Northern Irish ally that props up her government continued to resist a deal amid rumblings of a Cabinet

In San Francisco and Scarsdale, Jersey City and Greenwich, the real estate talk is the same: Just how bad will this Republican tax overhaul hurt?

Hurricane winds and raging wildfires knocked out power to millions of people from Florida to California this year, underscoring the need to protect America’s electric grid from disaster.

Almost a million people fled violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the first half of the year, outpacing conflict zones including Syria and Yemen, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

Drivers in the traffic-choked roads of Indonesia’s capital have been put on notice that using the city’s streets is set to get more painful.

As a candidate, Donald Trump boasted he could stand on New York’s Fifth Avenue “and shoot somebody” without losing votes. On Saturday, after the Senate passed his tax-cut proposal, he declared himself

The revelation that the U.K. government decided to leave the European Union’s trade bloc without calculating the impact adds another twist to a week that was supposed to mark a breakthrough for Prime

Some debate is inevitable in a country in which the definition of corruption is muddied by a long-tolerated system of patronage.

Worried that American CEOs will blow their big tax windfall on share buybacks? A theory circulating on Wall Street says don’t be: Soaring valuations and a buoyant economy are making the tactic passé.

The pound fell for a second day against the dollar, while U.K. government bonds rose, as Prime Minister Theresa May reportedly faced rebellion from all sides just days before a key meeting with the

President Donald Trump said his plan to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the U.S. embassy there is overdue while world leaders from the Vatican to Tehran denounced his stance as

Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered temporary enforcement of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, challengers are heading back to court in last-gasp attempts to stop it.

A faction of conservative Republicans is raising warnings about federal spending, two weeks after backing tax-cut legislation that would raise federal deficits by $1 trillion over the next decade.

A high-profile plan to prevent federal watchdogs from getting too cozy with banks they are supposed to police has been scrapped by President Donald Trump’s newest Wall Street regulator.

Investors watching the selloff that enveloped Asian markets Wednesday saw a host of reasons, ranging from profit-taking to the continued drop in technology stocks. But one matter was prominent for

U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad discusses the relationship between President Trump and Xi Jinping, the increasing tensions between the two countries, trade, Human Rights, North Korea and oil.

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